General situation of cable TV in Hong Kong

1993 65438+1October 3 1, Hong Kong Cable TV, formerly known as Wharf Cable TV, was officially launched. At first, it only used microwaves to transmit programs in Sha Tin. * * * There are 8 cable TV channels, including 2 live news and sports 1. 1 Children's Comics, 1 Women's Trends and Life, 1 Youth Promotion Video, 1 Entertainment Variety, 1 Movies as the main theme: Trend Channel: Cantonese women's trends and life programs are broadcast 24 hours a day around the world. ESPN: Cantonese sports and football matches are broadcast live around the world 24 hours a day. ESPN sports stations in the United States, including SCTV, Indosiar and Nexmedia in the Premier League, Kompas TV in the Bundesliga, TVRI in the Italian Football League, RCTI in the Spanish Football League and Rajawali Televisi in the French Football League. Level 1: Cantonese entertainment variety shows are broadcast 24 hours a day around the world. News channel: Cantonese news and information programs are broadcast live 24 hours a day all over the world. Children's Station: Cantonese children's animation programs are broadcast 24 hours a day around the world. Movie Station: Cantonese Hong Kong movies are broadcast 24 hours a day around the world. YMC: Cantonese youth promotion video program is broadcast around the world 24 hours a day. English News Station CNNI:CNN English News Station (CNN World News Station and CNN International News Station) broadcasts English news and information programs around the world 24 hours a day, including CNN English News Station (CNN World News Station and CNN International News Station). In 2004, Hong Kong Cable TV broadcasted the following four terrestrial TV (free TV) channels in Hong Kong: ATV Home RTHK: it is a comprehensive entertainment channel of ATV in Hong Kong, mainly in Cantonese. ATV World: It is a comprehensive entertainment channel under ATV in Hong Kong, mainly broadcast in English. TVB Emerald Channel: a comprehensive entertainment channel with Cantonese broadcasting as the main content under Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. ... TVB Pearl Channel: a comprehensive entertainment channel with English broadcasting as the main content under Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd. ... In September of the same year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Wireless said that it would sue two free channels of Hong Kong cable TV live broadcast in the High Court for infringement, so it applied for an injunction and demanded cable TV to compensate for the losses. The foreign affairs department of Hong Kong Cable TV said that in May of the same year, it sent a letter to TVB about the arrangement of broadcasting free TV on cable channels, but TVB never responded. After being accused of copyright infringement, Hong Kong Cable TV announced in late September that it would immediately stop broadcasting wireless TV programs. Hong Kong Cable TV explained that the transmission of wireless and ATV signals is purely for the convenience of viewers to improve the reception of free TV signals, and Hong Kong Cable TV has not benefited from it.

1995, Hong Kong Cable TV completed the laying of optical fiber backbone, and began to connect coaxial cables (public antennas) in the building to form an optical fiber coaxial network to provide interactive TV services for users. As of 2009, 95% of home users in Hong Kong have been covered by optical fiber coaxial network.

1997 allows some channels of Hong Kong Cable TV to broadcast advertisements.

1998 10, wharf cable TV co., ltd announced its name change to hong kong cable TV co., ltd.

From August, 20001year, Hong Kong Cable TV began to gradually convert TV signals from analog broadcasting to digital broadcasting. The project was completed in early 2005 and became the first TV station in Hong Kong to use digital broadcasting. In the same year, Hong Kong Cable TV established a Chinese satellite channel "Xinzhi Channel" covering the whole of Asia and North America. On September 14, 2004, Hong Kong Cable TV was approved by the Executive Council to launch satellite TV channel service to improve its coverage. In April, 2003, the new knowledge channel of CATV was approved by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. Overseas satellite institutions of China International Television Corporation receive channel signals and transmit KU-band signals through Asia-Pacific Satellite 6 (East longitude 134 degrees). However, this service is generally only provided to foreign-related hotels, foreign residential areas, embassies and consulates above three stars, and has landed in some areas of the Pearl River Delta. On the morning of 20 10 19, the radio station suddenly stopped broadcasting for no reason.

Although the service area of Hong Kong Cable TV is only in Hong Kong, some people near the border area of Shenzhen can also receive the signal after Hong Kong Cable TV transmits the signal by microwave, and it has been stolen by mainlanders since then. In recent years, Hong Kong Cable TV began to transmit programs through the KU-band of Asia-Pacific Satellite 5 (East longitude 138 degrees) (that is, cable TV satellite transmission service). The original intention of this service is only to make Hong Kong cable TV fully cover all of Hong Kong, but since the KU-band signal of Asia-Pacific Satellite 5 covers all of Chinese mainland, the most important 25 channels of cable TV can be received in all of Chinese mainland.

1993, the State Council City, China promulgated the Regulations on the Administration of Satellite TV Broadcasting and Receiving Facilities (commonly known as "Order 129"), which indirectly prohibited mainland people from installing and watching satellite TV. However, with the progress of science and technology, satellite signals have been converted from analog to digital, and the size and price of receivers have been greatly reduced. For example, Hong Kong cable TV signals only need to use dish antennas over 35cm (commonly known as "pot/\"

In the past, programs with online stars were all encrypted by the more secure Nagravision 2 system, and the cards were bundled, so it was hard to escape the bad luck of being stolen. In recent years, some technicians have also developed * * * card sharing technology, that is, they can enjoy genuine card data through the network * * *, which greatly reduces the cost of stealing TV and improves the stability, which directly leads to the expansion of the audience who steal cable TV from technicians to ordinary mainland people. For people in Guangdong, especially in the Pearl River Delta, who are troubled by advertising time, digital TV and closed speech, Hong Kong cable TV programs are attractive in both content and quality, which leads to more and more people in the Pearl River Delta installing satellite receivers to receive cable TV. In addition, due to management difficulties, the authorities have generally adopted a "no complaint" attitude towards the installation of satellite TV in recent years, which has led to the gradual proliferation of satellite TV reception in the Mainland in recent years, and the number of cable TV viewers in the Mainland, especially in the Pearl River Delta region, has doubled year by year. At the peak of 2009, cable TV can be seen almost everywhere in the Pearl River Delta region.

On June 22nd, 2009, 10, programs with online stars imitated local terrestrial programs in Hong Kong and launched a brand-new encryption system PowerVU, which was developed by Cisco. Machine card binding, all kinds of stolen brush means are invalid. Only two months later, in February 2009, 12, a loophole in the system was discovered by mainland hackers and was immediately cracked. At present, the satellite transmission service of cable TV can watch satellite TV through private network, but it has not been widely used because of its poor stability and "competition" from the cracked version of wireless pay TV with strong stability. In addition, the genuine receiver is also favored by many rich people in Guangdong, but due to the poor cost performance (close to 250 yuan every month, only a dozen channels), so the number of viewers is not much. The new channel "10 Mosquito I" was launched on June 3rd, 2007. Cable is preparing to recruit 100 people for this purpose. In addition to news, movies and entertainment, there will be more cable TV series and music programs, and it is envisaged that the year-end award ceremony will become the first paid TV station operating in the mode of free TV station.

On May 10, 2007, CATV announced the name of the new channel as "CATVNo. 1". This station started at 7: 00 pm on June 3, 2007, replacing "Cable A".